Michael Horner

Michael Horner is on staff with P2C-Students and serves as an apologetics speaker and writer. Explore his collection of articles answering many questions and objections that are posed to Christians here.

Recent Posts by Michael Horner

Read the transcript or listen here in podcast #13 where Michael continues discussing the burden of proof issue in debates about God’s existence. Atheists typically claim that “We aren’t saying God does not exist – we are merely lacking a belief that God does exist.” This statement requires significant clarification. Is it an accurate claim about the way things are or is it just a debating strategy to avoid shouldering any burden of proof. Michael asks the atheist, “Do you also happen to lack the belief that God does not exist?” Michael then considers the implications.

Read the transcript or listen here in podcast #12 where Michael continues the discussion about the burden of proof by sharing what Paul Chamberlain wrote about this issue after a debate. Paul argues that all truth claims come with a burden of proof. Both Paul and Michael then argue that analogies to clearly fictional characters are fallacious.

Michael discusses the typical atheist strategy of holding the case for God’s existence to a unreasonably high standard of proof, absolute certainty, while denying that the atheist has any burden of proof at all.

Read the transcript or listen here in podcast #10 where Michael discusses: the problem of moral dilemmas and how they affect people’s view of relativism or absolutism. The point is, you don’t have to be a moral relativist to avoid moral dilemmas.

Read the transcript or listen here in podcast #8 where Michael discusses: What if a bunch of guys said, ‘You people might think torturing toddlers for sport is morally wrong but me and my buddies think it is great fun!’ How should we respond to that? Should we throw our hands up and conclude, ‘Oh, no, I guess morality is relative to subjective opinions after all?’

Read the transcript or listen here in podcast #7 where Michael discusses: Intuition. By intuition, philosophers do not mean an irrational hunch or some popular notion like when one refers to a ‘woman’s intuition’.

Rather “a common usage defines an intuition as an immediate, direct awareness or acquaintance with something.” J.P. Moreland & W.L Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, (p. 422)